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From: jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com To: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com Cc: jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com Subject: gdb/2499: to_can_use_hw_breakpoint/CAN_USE_HARDWARE_WATCHPOINT ambiguous Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:38:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20080812063054.6627.qmail@sourceware.org> (raw) >Number: 2499 >Category: gdb >Synopsis: to_can_use_hw_breakpoint/CAN_USE_HARDWARE_WATCHPOINT ambiguous >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: unassigned >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: net >Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 12 06:38:01 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com >Release: unknown-1.0 >Organization: >Environment: Fedora 9 Linux, GDB 6.8, OpenRISC 1000 (or1k) target >Description: The code to set a watchpoint in watch_command_1() tests to see if a hardware watchpoint is available, using CAN_USE_HARDARE_WATCHPOINT, which in turn calls the to_can_use_hw_breakpoint() function of the target. This returns 0 to indicate that the particular type of watchpoint is unsupported and -1 to indicate either that there are insufficient watchpoint resources or that two different types of watchpoint cannot simultaneously be supported. However for the latter case the error message given is always: "Target can only support one kind of HW watchpoint at a time." This is confusing if the problem is actually that the resources have run out. This bug is related to Bug 967, concerning the need to pass to_can_use_hw_breakpoint() additional information for it to make a good judgement. Not a high priority, but entered here for the record. >How-To-Repeat: At present I can only demonstrate this with the GDB 6.8 port for the OpenRISC architecture, which supports a maximum of 4 watchpoints: (gdb) rwatch a Hardware read watchpoint 1: a (gdb) rwatch b Hardware read watchpoint 2: b (gdb) rwatch c Hardware read watchpoint 3: c (gdb) rwatch d Hardware read watchpoint 4: d (gdb) rwatch e Target can only support one kind of HW watchpoint at a time. (gdb) It should occur for any architecture with finite hardware watchpoint resources. >Fix: I suggest to_can_use_hw_breakpoint() specification is extended to allow return -2 to indicate resources have run out with -1 reserved for its current meaning. The code in watch_command_1() could then be extended to print out the appropriate message in each case. This would be backwards compatible with the existing code base. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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